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Buckingham — UK General Election Results

Compiled by EveryElectionResult.com's data team · Last updated 2026-08-30

Buckingham was won by Conservative at the 2019 general election, with a majority of 20,411 votes over Liberal Democrat. This page covers every general election in Buckingham from 1832 to 2019.

This constituency elected more than one MP at once in some years. Before the Redistribution of Seats Act 1885 (and in a shrinking number of boroughs through 1948), most UK constituencies elected two or more MPs together by "multi-member plurality" (block vote): each elector could cast one vote per available seat, and the top vote-getters overall were all elected. In those elections below, "Elected" lists every MP returned, "Votes" is the count that secured the last seat, and "Majority" is the gap between that seat and the first candidate who missed out.

Full Election History, 1832–2019

Election Elected Votes Vote Share Runner-up Majority Turnout
1832 Harry Verney (Whig); Thomas Francis Fremantle (Conservative) 156 37.3% (top seat) George Morgan (Whig) 18 (3.8 pts) 78.2%
1835 Thomas Francis Fremantle (Conservative); Harry Verney (Whig) Elected unopposed — no other candidate stood, no vote count on record 0.0%
1837 Thomas Francis Fremantle (Conservative); Harry Verney (Whig) 157 44.4% (top seat) John Chetwode (Conservative) 19 (3.6 pts) 77.9%
1841 Thomas Francis Fremantle (Conservative); John Chetwode (Conservative) Elected unopposed — no other candidate stood, no vote count on record 0.0%
1847 John Hall (Conservative); Richard Plantagenet Campbell Temple-Nugent-Brydges-Chandos-Grenville (Conservative) Elected unopposed — no other candidate stood, no vote count on record 0.0%
1852 John Hall (Conservative); Richard Plantagenet Campbell Temple-Nugent-Brydges-Chandos-Grenville (Conservative) Elected unopposed — no other candidate stood, no vote count on record 0.0%
1857 Harry Verney (Whig); John Hall (Conservative) 151 34.5% (top seat) Richard Cavendish (Whig) 17 (3.0 pts) 79.1%
1859 Harry Verney (Liberal); John Gellibrand Hubbard (Conservative) 196 36.6% (top seat) George William Barrington (Conservative) 49 (9.1 pts) 74.3%
1865 Harry Verney (Liberal); John Gellibrand Hubbard (Conservative) Elected unopposed — no other candidate stood, no vote count on record 0.0%
1868 Harry Verney (Liberal) 463 57.8% John Gellibrand Hubbard (Conservative) 125 (15.6 pts) 84.5%
1874 Egerton Hubbard (Conservative) 589 60.1% Harry Verney (Liberal) 198 (20.2 pts) 87.7%
1880 Harry Verney (Liberal) 528 50.4% Egerton Hubbard (Conservative) 8 (0.8 pts) 91.2%
1885 Edmund Hope Verney (Liberal) 5,462 57.7% Samuel Wilson (Conservative) 1,456 (15.4 pts) 83.7%
1886 Egerton Hubbard (Conservative) 4,460 50.4% Edmund Hope Verney (Liberal) 71 (0.8 pts) 78.3%
1892 Herbert Samuel Leon (Liberal) 5,153 52.3% William Walter Carlile (Conservative) 449 (4.6 pts) 85.6%
1895 William Walter Carlile (Conservative) 5,266 52.2% Herbert Samuel Leon (Liberal) 436 (4.3 pts) 88.6%
1900 William Walter Carlile (Conservative) 5,101 52.1% Hubert George Beaumont (Liberal) 417 (4.3 pts) 83.7%
1906 Frederick William Verney (Liberal) 6,253 57.2% Thomas Francis Fremantle (Conservative) 1,580 (14.5 pts) 88.6%
Jan 1910 Frederick William Verney (Liberal) 6,055 50.5% Thomas Francis Fremantle (Conservative) 111 (0.9 pts) 91.7%
Dec 1910 Harry Calvert Williams Verney (Liberal) 6,029 56.2% Francis Tyringham Higgins Bernard (Liberal Unionist) 327 (3.0 pts) 89.7%
1918 George Edward Wentworth Bowyer (Unionist) 12,441 53.7% John Scurr (Labour) 4,960 (21.4 pts) 63.6%
1922 George Edward Wentworth Bowyer (Unionist) 13,751 49.3% Owen Connellan (Labour) 6,408 (23.0 pts) 76.9%
1923 George Edward Wentworth Bowyer (Unionist) 13,351 53.0% Edward Pay (Labour) 1,527 (6.1 pts) 68.4%
1924 George Edward Wentworth Bowyer (Unionist) 15,129 51.8% Edward Pay (Labour) 6,190 (21.2 pts) 78.1%
1929 George Edward Wentworth Bowyer (Unionist) 16,375 45.7% James Lievsley George (Labour) 4,657 (13.0 pts) 79.6%
1931 George Edward Wentworth Bowyer (Conservative) 23,783 67.0% James Lievsley George (Labour) 12,047 (33.9 pts) 77.7%
1935 George Edward Wentworth Bowyer (Conservative) 20,616 58.0% Joseph Alfred Sparks (Labour) 5,688 (16.0 pts) 75.1%
1945 Aidan Merivale Crawley (Labour) 22,302 54.7% Geoffrey Lionel Berry (Conservative) 3,845 (9.4 pts) 71.6%
1950 Aidan Merivale Crawley (Labour) 20,782 47.1% Sydney Frank Markham (Conservative) 1,654 (3.8 pts) 86.2%
1951 Sydney Frank Markham (Conservative) 22,688 50.1% Aidan Merivale Crawley (Labour) 54 (0.1 pts) 86.6%
1955 Sir Sydney Frank Markham (Conservative) 23,250 51.3% David Gordon Evans (Labour) 1,140 (2.5 pts) 85.1%
1959 Sir Sydney Frank Markham (Conservative) 22,304 47.0% Ian Robert Maxwell (Labour) 1,746 (3.7 pts) 86.4%
1964 Ian Robert Maxwell (Labour) 23,085 45.9% Mary Elaine Kellett (Conservative) 1,481 (2.9 pts) 86.5%
1966 Ian Maxwell (Labour) 24,854 47.5% Mary Kellett (Conservative) 2,254 (4.3 pts) 85.9%
1970 William Benyon (Conservative) 28,088 47.5% Ian Maxwell (Labour) 2,521 (4.3 pts) 81.8%
Oct 1974 William Benyon (Conservative) 26,597 42.2% Ian Maxwell (Labour) 2,918 (4.6 pts) 79.7%
Feb 1974 William Benyon (Conservative) 27,179 40.7% Ian Maxwell (Labour) 3,123 (4.7 pts) 85.2%
1979 William Benyon (Conservative) 41,719 51.3% John Beresford Fryer (Labour) 13,967 (17.2 pts) 78.6%
1983 George Walden (Conservative) 27,522 56.9% Richard Hood Jack Dudley Ryder (Liberal) 13,938 (28.8 pts) 77.1%
1987 George Walden (Conservative) 32,162 58.6% Charles Burke (Liberal) 18,526 (33.8 pts) 78.3%
1992 George Walden (Conservative) 29,496 62.5% Tudor Jones (Liberal Democrat) 19,791 (41.9 pts) 84.2%
1997 John Bercow (Conservative) 24,594 49.8% Robert Lehmann (Labour) 12,386 (25.1 pts) 78.5%
2001 John Bercow (Conservative) 24,296 53.7% Mark Seddon (Labour) 13,325 (29.4 pts) 69.4%
2005 John Bercow (Conservative) 27,748 57.4% David Greene (Labour) 18,129 (37.5 pts) 68.7%
2010 John Bercow (Speaker (non-party)) 22,860 47.3% John Stevens (Independent) 12,529 (25.9 pts) 65.9%
2015 John Bercow (Speaker (non-party)) 34,617 64.5% Dave Fowler (UKIP) 22,942 (42.7 pts) 71.0%
2017 John Bercow (Speaker (non-party)) 34,299 65.1% Michael Sheppard (Green) 25,725 (48.8 pts) 68.6%
2019 Greg Smith (Conservative) 37,035 58.4% Stephen Dorrell (Liberal Democrat) 20,411 (32.2 pts) 76.6%

Full Result Breakdown by Election

1832 (2 seats)

CandidatePartyVotesShareElected
Harry Verney Whig 17537.3% Yes
Thomas Francis Fremantle Conservative 15633.3% Yes
George Morgan Whig 13829.4% No

1835 (2 seats)

CandidatePartyVotesShareElected
Thomas Francis Fremantle Conservative Unopposed Yes
Harry Verney Whig Unopposed Yes

1837 (2 seats)

CandidatePartyVotesShareElected
Thomas Francis Fremantle Conservative 23644.4% Yes
Harry Verney Whig 15729.6% Yes
John Chetwode Conservative 13826.0% No

1841 (2 seats)

CandidatePartyVotesShareElected
Thomas Francis Fremantle Conservative Unopposed Yes
John Chetwode Conservative Unopposed Yes

1847 (2 seats)

CandidatePartyVotesShareElected
John Hall Conservative Unopposed Yes
Richard Plantagenet Campbell Temple-Nugent-Brydges-Chandos-Grenville Conservative Unopposed Yes

1852 (2 seats)

CandidatePartyVotesShareElected
John Hall Conservative Unopposed Yes
Richard Plantagenet Campbell Temple-Nugent-Brydges-Chandos-Grenville Conservative Unopposed Yes

1857 (2 seats)

CandidatePartyVotesShareElected
Harry Verney Whig 19334.5% Yes
John Hall Conservative 15127.0% Yes
Richard Cavendish Whig 13423.9% No
Philip Box Conservative 8214.6% No

1859 (2 seats)

CandidatePartyVotesShareElected
Harry Verney Liberal 19836.6% Yes
John Gellibrand Hubbard Conservative 19636.2% Yes
George William Barrington Conservative 14727.2% No

1865 (2 seats)

CandidatePartyVotesShareElected
Harry Verney Liberal Unopposed Yes
John Gellibrand Hubbard Conservative Unopposed Yes

1868

CandidatePartyVotesShareElected
Harry Verney Liberal 46357.8% Yes
John Gellibrand Hubbard Conservative 33842.2% No

1874

CandidatePartyVotesShareElected
Egerton Hubbard Conservative 58960.1% Yes
Harry Verney Liberal 39139.9% No

1880

CandidatePartyVotesShareElected
Harry Verney Liberal 52850.4% Yes
Egerton Hubbard Conservative 52049.6% No

1885

CandidatePartyVotesShareElected
Edmund Hope Verney Liberal 5,46257.7% Yes
Samuel Wilson Conservative 4,00642.3% No

1886

CandidatePartyVotesShareElected
Egerton Hubbard Conservative 4,46050.4% Yes
Edmund Hope Verney Liberal 4,38949.6% No

1892

CandidatePartyVotesShareElected
Herbert Samuel Leon Liberal 5,15352.3% Yes
William Walter Carlile Conservative 4,70447.7% No

1895

CandidatePartyVotesShareElected
William Walter Carlile Conservative 5,26652.2% Yes
Herbert Samuel Leon Liberal 4,83047.8% No

1900

CandidatePartyVotesShareElected
William Walter Carlile Conservative 5,10152.1% Yes
Hubert George Beaumont Liberal 4,68447.9% No

1906

CandidatePartyVotesShareElected
Frederick William Verney Liberal 6,25357.2% Yes
Thomas Francis Fremantle Conservative 4,67342.8% No

Jan 1910

CandidatePartyVotesShareElected
Frederick William Verney Liberal 6,05550.5% Yes
Thomas Francis Fremantle Conservative 5,94449.5% No

Dec 1910

CandidatePartyVotesShareElected
Harry Calvert Williams Verney Liberal 6,02956.2% Yes
Francis Tyringham Higgins Bernard Liberal Unionist 5,70253.1% No

1918

CandidatePartyVotesShareElected
George Edward Wentworth Bowyer Unionist 12,44153.7% Yes
John Scurr Labour 7,48132.3% No
Harry Calvert Williams Verney Liberal 3,25014.0% No

1922

CandidatePartyVotesShareElected
George Edward Wentworth Bowyer Unionist 13,75149.3% Yes
Owen Connellan Labour 7,34326.3% No
Charles Edward Henry Hobhouse Liberal 6,78924.3% No

1923

CandidatePartyVotesShareElected
George Edward Wentworth Bowyer Unionist 13,35153.0% Yes
Edward Pay Labour 11,82447.0% No

1924

CandidatePartyVotesShareElected
George Edward Wentworth Bowyer Unionist 15,12951.8% Yes
Edward Pay Labour 8,93930.6% No
Richard Kingesley-Johnson Liberal 5,14417.6% No

1929

CandidatePartyVotesShareElected
George Edward Wentworth Bowyer Unionist 16,37545.7% Yes
James Lievsley George Labour 11,71832.7% No
Norman Easedale Crump Liberal 7,71321.5% No

1931

CandidatePartyVotesShareElected
George Edward Wentworth Bowyer Conservative 23,78367.0% Yes
James Lievsley George Labour 11,73633.0% No

1935

CandidatePartyVotesShareElected
George Edward Wentworth Bowyer Conservative 20,61658.0% Yes
Joseph Alfred Sparks Labour 14,92842.0% No

1945

CandidatePartyVotesShareElected
Aidan Merivale Crawley Labour 22,30254.7% Yes
Geoffrey Lionel Berry Conservative 18,45745.3% No

1950

CandidatePartyVotesShareElected
Aidan Merivale Crawley Labour 20,78247.1% Yes
Sydney Frank Markham Conservative 19,12843.4% No
John Denis Glbert Kellock Liberal 4,1969.5% No

1951

CandidatePartyVotesShareElected
Sydney Frank Markham Conservative 22,68850.1% Yes
Aidan Merivale Crawley Labour 22,63449.9% No

1955

CandidatePartyVotesShareElected
Sir Sydney Frank Markham Conservative 23,25051.3% Yes
David Gordon Evans Labour 22,11048.7% No

1959

CandidatePartyVotesShareElected
Sir Sydney Frank Markham Conservative 22,30447.0% Yes
Ian Robert Maxwell Labour 20,55843.3% No
Evan Laurence Frederick Richards Liberal 4,5779.6% No

1964

CandidatePartyVotesShareElected
Ian Robert Maxwell Labour 23,08545.9% Yes
Mary Elaine Kellett Conservative 21,60443.0% No
Jack Raphael Wallis Liberal 5,57811.1% No

1966

CandidatePartyVotesShareElected
Ian Maxwell Labour 24,85447.5% Yes
Mary Kellett Conservative 22,60043.2% No
John Cornwall Liberal 4,9149.4% No

1970

CandidatePartyVotesShareElected
William Benyon Conservative 28,08847.5% Yes
Ian Maxwell Labour 25,56743.2% No
John Cornwall Liberal 5,4759.3% No

Oct 1974

CandidatePartyVotesShareElected
William Benyon Conservative 26,59742.2% Yes
Ian Maxwell Labour 23,67937.6% No
Samuel Bennett Crooks Liberal 12,70720.2% No

Feb 1974

CandidatePartyVotesShareElected
William Benyon Conservative 27,17940.7% Yes
Ian Maxwell Labour 24,05636.0% No
Samuel Bennett Crooks Liberal 15,51923.2% No

1979

CandidatePartyVotesShareElected
William Benyon Conservative 41,71951.3% Yes
John Beresford Fryer Labour 27,75234.1% No
Samuel Bennett Crooks Liberal 11,04513.6% No
Michael Paul Smith National Front 8031.0% No

1983

CandidatePartyVotesShareElected
George Walden Conservative 27,52256.9% Yes
Richard Hood Jack Dudley Ryder Liberal 13,58428.1% No
Martyn Groucutt Labour 7,27215.0% No

1987

CandidatePartyVotesShareElected
George Walden Conservative 32,16258.6% Yes
Charles Burke Liberal 13,63624.9% No
Martyn Groucutt Labour 9,05316.5% No

1992

CandidatePartyVotesShareElected
George Walden Conservative 29,49662.5% Yes
Tudor Jones Liberal Democrat 9,70520.6% No
Keith White Labour 7,66216.2% No
Lawrence Sheaff Natural Law 3530.7% No

1997

CandidatePartyVotesShareElected
John Bercow Conservative 24,59449.8% Yes
Robert Lehmann Labour 12,20824.7% No
Neil Stuart Liberal Democrat 12,17524.6% No
Geoffrey Clements Natural Law 4210.9% No

2001

CandidatePartyVotesShareElected
John Bercow Conservative 24,29653.7% Yes
Mark Seddon Labour 10,97124.2% No
Isobel Wilson Liberal Democrat 9,03720.0% No
Christopher Silcock UKIP 9682.1% No

2005

CandidatePartyVotesShareElected
John Bercow Conservative 27,74857.4% Yes
David Greene Labour 9,61919.9% No
Luke Croydon Liberal Democrat 9,50819.7% No
David Williams UKIP 1,4323.0% No

2010

CandidatePartyVotesShareElected
John Bercow Speaker (non-party) 22,86047.3% Yes
John Stevens Independent 10,33121.4% No
Nigel Farage UKIP 8,40117.4% No
Patrick Phillips Independent 2,3945.0% No
Debbie Martin Independent 1,2702.6% No
Lynne Mozar BNP 9802.0% No
Colin Dale-Mills Official Monster Raving Loony Party 8561.8% No
Geoff Howard Independent 4350.9% No
David Hews Christian Party, Proclaiming Christ's Lordship 3690.8% No
Anthony Watts Independent 3320.7% No
Simon Strutt Cut The Deficit 1070.2% No

2015

CandidatePartyVotesShareElected
John Bercow Speaker (non-party) 34,61764.5% Yes
Dave Fowler UKIP 11,67521.7% No
Alan Francis Green 7,40013.8% No

2017

CandidatePartyVotesShareElected
John Bercow Speaker (non-party) 34,29965.1% Yes
Michael Sheppard Green 8,57416.3% No
Scott Raven Independent 5,63810.7% No
Brian Mapletoft UKIP 4,1687.9% No

2019

CandidatePartyVotesShareElected
Greg Smith Conservative 37,03558.4% Yes
Stephen Dorrell Liberal Democrat 16,62426.2% No
David Morgan Labour 7,63812.0% No
Andrew Bell Brexit Party 1,2862.0% No
Ned Thompson Independent 6811.1% No
Antonio Vitiello English Democrats 1940.3% No

Margin Over Time

Winning margin (percentage points) at each election, coloured by the winning party.

1832: Whig margin 3.8 pts 1837: Conservative margin 3.6 pts 1857: Whig margin 3.0 pts 1859: Liberal margin 9.1 pts 1868: Liberal margin 15.6 pts 1874: Conservative margin 20.2 pts 1880: Liberal margin 0.8 pts 1885: Liberal margin 15.4 pts 1886: Conservative margin 0.8 pts 1892: Liberal margin 4.6 pts 1895: Conservative margin 4.3 pts 1900: Conservative margin 4.3 pts 1906: Liberal margin 14.5 pts Jan 1910: Liberal margin 0.9 pts Dec 1910: Liberal margin 3.0 pts 1918: Unionist margin 21.4 pts 1922: Unionist margin 23.0 pts 1923: Unionist margin 6.1 pts 1924: Unionist margin 21.2 pts 1929: Unionist margin 13.0 pts 1931: Conservative margin 33.9 pts 1935: Conservative margin 16.0 pts 1945: Labour margin 9.4 pts 1950: Labour margin 3.8 pts 1951: Conservative margin 0.1 pts 1955: Conservative margin 2.5 pts 1959: Conservative margin 3.7 pts 1964: Labour margin 2.9 pts 1966: Labour margin 4.3 pts 1970: Conservative margin 4.3 pts Oct 1974: Conservative margin 4.6 pts Feb 1974: Conservative margin 4.7 pts 1979: Conservative margin 17.2 pts 1983: Conservative margin 28.8 pts 1987: Conservative margin 33.8 pts 1992: Conservative margin 41.9 pts 1997: Conservative margin 25.1 pts 2001: Conservative margin 29.4 pts 2005: Conservative margin 37.5 pts 2010: Speaker (non-party) margin 25.9 pts 2015: Speaker (non-party) margin 42.7 pts 2017: Speaker (non-party) margin 48.8 pts 2019: Conservative margin 32.2 pts 1832 1837 1857 1859 1868 1874 1880 1885 1886 1892 1895 1900 1906 Jan 1910 Dec 1910 1918 1922 1923 1924 1929 1931 1935 1945 1950 1951 1955 1959 1964 1966 1970 Oct 1974 Feb 1974 1979 1983 1987 1992 1997 2001 2005 2010 2015 2017 2019

Trend

Buckingham has been contested at 48 general elections on record since 1832. Parties that have won a seat here over that span: Whig, Conservative, Liberal, Unionist, Labour, Speaker (non-party).

Frequently Asked Questions

Who won Buckingham in the 2019 general election?

Conservative won Buckingham in 2019 with 37,035 votes (58.4%), a majority of 20,411 votes over Liberal Democrat in second place.

Which parties have won Buckingham since 1832?

Since 1832, Buckingham has been won by: Conservative, Labour, Liberal, Speaker (non-party), Unionist, Whig.

What was the closest result in Buckingham?

The closest result on record for Buckingham was 1951, when Conservative beat Labour by just 54 votes (0.1 percentage points).

Did Buckingham ever elect more than one MP at a time?

Yes -- like most UK constituencies before the Redistribution of Seats Act 1885, Buckingham elected multiple MPs at once in some elections on this page (a system called multi-member plurality, or 'block vote'), each voter casting one vote per available seat.

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